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Happy Thanksgiving. It''s been a terrific month for mining new music. I caught an advance screening of Led Zeppelin''s new concert movie at MoMA (and their press conference), discovered what may be my favorite album of the year, and found inspiring young musicians sharing their chops and muses with the world. With the holidays around the corner, here are some early suggestions for music very much worth sharing with friends, lovers, bosses, and family.
"You''re So Great / It'...

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On the heels of performing at the Chanel spring/summer 2013 fashion show in Paris and the Fashion Moments 2012 party in Shanghai, and with yet another tour in Europe, the Pitchfork Music Festival in Paris, the Harvest Festival in Australia, Art Basel in Miami and a few other upcoming dates in South America, indie-electronic darlings (and Portland, Oregon hometown heroes) Chromatics are smack dab in the midst of an international meteoric rise.
With their latest release, Kill for ...

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Oscar Rendole made cycling history Saturday by becoming the first Filipino to win a stage in an International Cycling Union (UCI, Union Cycliste International) race at the start of the Le Tour de Filipinas 2012 in Cagayan province.
The 26-year-old Rendole, racing under Team Mail and More, outsprinted two Dutch-based riders in the opening stage of the annual racing event—a 155-kilometer distance from the municipality of Sta. Ana to Tuguegarao City.
The Nueva-Ecija na...